Introduction: Studies have shown that middle school is a decisive time for either promoting or dissuading student interest in the areas of mathematics and science (1). Students who are not engaged in learning these subjects in the critical middle school years often lose interest and motivation by the time they reach high school. Use of technology and hands-on activities has been shown to engage...

Published by the IEEE Computer Society 0018-9162/11/$26.00 © 2011 IEEE preparation is not typically part of most undergraduate programs, especially at engineering institutions. Cultivating entrepreneurial thinking requires going beyond teaching business fundamentals and reviewing case studies; it requires learning through practice.2 To support active student engagement in entrepreneurial activi...

Feedback:  Post-evaluation survey: 42.86% and 57.14% of the camp participants ranked RIT’s summer camp as 4 and 5 out of 5, respectively  Instructor impressions: “... incredibly successful in ramping up students to use GENI for pursuing interesting research...” and “... are unique opportunities for both the developers of GENI tools and the experimenters. The experimenters are able to gain han...

Many projects addressing the creation of online laboratories have been developed recently. They have a common goal: to enable students and professional learners to get hands-on experience without moving from the places where they are. Nevertheless, the found solutions are often very different among them, and interoperability between different online laboratories systems does not exist. In this ...